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Minimum bounding box
In geometry, the minimum bounding box or smallest bounding box (also known as the minimum enclosing box or smallest enclosing box) for a point set in dimensions is the box with the smallest measure (area, volume, or hypervolume in higher dimensions) within which all the points lie.
Minimum bounding box algorithms
In computational geometry, the smallest enclosing box problem is that of finding the oriented minimum bounding box enclosing a set of points.
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